Andrew Ede
Background in business publishing. Started an online blog about Mallorca in 2005, which went daily in 2007, covering culture, environment, history, politics, tourism and more. Became a regular contributor to the Bulletin in 2010 before joining the staff a few years later.
Majorca
What's on in Majorca: 15-21 August
Rubber ducks, pyromusical spectaculars, fireworks and demons' fire-runs. Another bumper bundle few days of fiestas - Cala d'Or, Cala San Vicente, Can Picafort, S'Illot, Soller, Valldemossa and elsewhere - plus Simply Red at Palma's bullring on Saturday.
Majorca
Limiting tourists, limiting Brexit fears: the week in Majorca
Just when you thought it was safe to forget about it and relax blissfully in a summer sea, Brexit reopened its jaws. Meanwhile, there were great deals of both tourism sustainability and illegal street sellers.
Majorca
What's on in Majorca: 8-14 August
An absolutely packed week of fiestas - Cala d'Or, Cala Ratjada, Can Picafort, Llucmajor, Portals Nous being just a few places. Art nights in Campos and Soller. The Creamfields Festival comes to Magalluf.
Majorca
Tourist quality and places, super yachts and crime: the week in Majorca
The Balearic government was looking to eliminate what it considered to be low-grade tourism, the Més party was wanting limits on tourist places, Palma was full of luxury vessels and the police were being kept busy in Magalluf.
Fiestas
More Moors than ever but Dragut still loses Pollensa battle
There were more Moors than ever this year, determined to try and reverse the battle result of a simulation that has been staged since the mid-nineteenth century.
Tourist tax
Bulletin readers remain firmly against the tourist tax
There was 78% opposition to the tax.
Majorca
What's on in Majorca: 1-7 August
Fiestas this week in, among other places, Cala d'Or, Cala Millor, Can Picafort, Colonia Sant Jordi, with the highlight being the Moors and Christians battle in Pollensa on Tuesday. Legendary American guitarist John Abercrombie kicks off the Sa Pobla Jazz Festival, the Pollensa Festival starts, David Guetta returns to Magalluf and the remains of ELO are in Port Adriano.
Majorca
Tourism records, police successes and Andy Murray: the week in Majorca
Not everyone was convinced by record season announcements or by achievements by local police forces. A project for a new shopping centre failed to raise support, while Richard Branson received support from a source that had previously opposed him.
Puerto Pollensa
Opposition blocks second phase of Puerto Pollensa pedestrianisation
The vote against the project means that work on the second phase is unlikely to be completed in time for the start of the 2017 season.
Majorca
What's on in Majorca: 25 - 31 July
Fiesta highlights this week - the procession of the "triumphal carriage" of La Beata in Valldemossa, Pollensa's La Patrona gets under way, night parties and demons galore. Arta, Cala Millor, Colonia Sant Jordi, Inca among the locations. Otherwise there is the Night of Art in S'Arraco (Andratx), while Rudimental and Example appear in Magalluf.
Majorca
Low Cost, tourist tax, drought: the week in Majorca
There was the fallout from the collapse of Low Cost (only the start of the fallout), there was a meeting of tourist-tax spending decision-makers, and the lack of water was becoming more serious.
Business
Low Cost originally lodged a two million euro bond with the government
The president of the hoteliers federation for Ibiza and Formentera says that the majority of hoteliers cut their relationships with Low Cost three years ago because it was a bad payer.
Entertainment
What's on in Majorca - 18 to 24 July
Fiestas this week in Alcudia, Inca, Manacor, Portocolom, Santanyi, Valldemossa and elsewhere. Music highlights include Gloria Gaynor in Port Adriano, American rock guitarist Steve Vai at Palma's Trui Theatre and the Mallorca Roots Festival at the Son Fusteret showground.
Majorca
The pound, the tax, the toilets: the week in Majorca
Resorts were apparently taking a pounding because of the pound, the tourist tax was being hailed as a success, Britons were wanting to be Spaniards as well, and the lavatories of Palma entered the cruise-ship arguments.
Entertainment
What's on in Majorca - 12 to 17 July
Fiestas for Virgen del Carmen. Queen tribute performances in Palma and Alcudia. Classical at Bellver Castle. And more.
Majorca
Drugs, corruption and all-inclusives: the week in Majorca
There was yet more police action against drugs, more chaos courtesy of the French air traffic controllers, all-inclusives were making a "return", and politicians were caught up in the Palma police corruption affair.
Corruption
The sordid affairs of Palma's police
Juan Manuel Penalva, the judge investigating corruption in the Palma force, claims that Rodríguez was the "architect in the shadows".
Majorca
Brexit, crime and tourist tax: the week in Majorca
It was a major news week. Brexit, the Spanish election, the tourist tax.
Tourist tax
Tourist tax day passes off normally
Conservation of the environment, preservation of heritage and other purposes for the tax were met with general indifference and even some opposition.
Majorca
Brexit, beaches, drugs: the week in Majorca
The leave vote left many in Majorca stunned, the police were scoring victories against organised crime and the controversy of Puerto Pollensa's beaches managed to rumble on.
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
- Mallorca needs to remember price is king